Junior Organ School
The St Peter’s Cathedral Music Foundation is proud to provide scholarships to support the tuition of young students who are interested in learning the organ, with our experienced tutors, Joshua van Konkelenberg and Mark Joyner. It is important to the Music Foundation to invest in the next generation of organists, to make sure that in the future our magnificent instrument is played and enjoyed.
Scholarships are by application to the Director of Music, Anthony Hunt. There are a limited number of scholarships available, and they may be awarded as full-fee or part-fee scholarships towards the cost of one year’s organ lessons.
The Music Foundation has recently funded the purchase of a new teaching instrument, a Johannus 270 Digital Organ, which resides in the John Dunn Room, for teaching and practice. Students will learn on both this teaching instrument, and the Cathedral Organ.
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Joshua van Konkelenberg
Josh van Konkelenberg studied piano and composition at the University of Adelaide before relocating to London to study organ and improvisation with David Graham and Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin at the Royal College of Music. He received the degree of Master of Music with distinction in 2012, and completed a PhD in Composition (at the University of Adelaide) in the same year.
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Mark Joyner
Mark Joyner studied at the University of Melbourne, where his organ teachers were June Nixon at St Paul’s Cathedral and Lindsay O’Neill at St Andrew’s Brighton. Earlier, he was a chorister and then pupil and Assistant Organist to Paul Paviour at All Saints’ Cathedral Bathurst, NSW. Later he was Organist and Choirmaster at several churches, including Holy Trinity Cathedral Wangaratta and St George’s Church Malvern, in Victoria.
He is also a school music teacher and has taught at a number of schools. Prior to moving to Adelaide in 1999, he was Assistant Director of Music, Organist and Choirmaster at Melbourne Grammar School.